The Bond of Love Creates Unity In A Marriage
The Bond of Love creates unity in a marriage. Make the commitment. Strive together to achieve the Biblical “bond of perfection.”
Anyone who is/has been married knows unity doesn’t happen naturally.
Promising the vows that one special day in your life doesn’t cause the bond’s completion in one angelic swoop.
That day… that one special day… yes.
That day the angels are singing and your heart is overflowing with oneness. You are no longer twain but one. On the day of our marriage, I felt almost a physical pull, as if a chiffon cord brought our hearts together, and we felt the bond of perfection.
That is
The Bond of Love
we will strive for the rest of our lives.
Some days love feels like chiffon cords, sometimes like bonds of steel, and a very few times, you wish you’d never met at the altar or anywhere in the whole world.
However, anyone who sincerely wants a Christian marriage is bound by more than marriage vows.
They are bound first with baptismal vows, because when you commit your heart to Jesus you agree to do the work of maintaining that commitment. When these vows come first, and become as natural as breathing, you’re all practiced up for marriage vows.
Baptismal vows are your commitment to put Jesus first in your life.
Marriage vows are your commitment to put Jesus and your spouse first in your life.
That simple.
And that beautiful.
When you’re seething in misery, go back in your memories to the day of your marriage.
It could be kind of like a figurative punishment: when you fought with your siblings, your mom made you sit together until you could hug each other.
Sit with your memories, review your vows, and become “one in the bond of love.”
Forever and ever.
